FEM-based method for the simulation of dielectric waveguide grating biosensors

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 137, Issue , 2013, Pages 565-583

  Guillod, Thomas ^a   Kehl, Florian ^a,b,c   Hafner, Christian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

^c Optics Balzers AC   (Liechtenstein)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLERS; HIGH SENSITIVITY; INTERFERENCE METHODS; LABEL-FREE OPTICAL BIOSENSORS; PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERED FIELD; TUNING PARAMETER; WAVEGUIDE GRATING BIOSENSORS;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WAVEGUIDES;

BIOSENSORS;

EID: 84874959031     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER13020502     Document Type: Article

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